Full Screen Guest OS In VMWare

A very good morning to all of you. Today we’ll explore VMware in-depth. I am running my RHEL5 OS in VMware and Windows7 as my primary operating system. But I was quite annoyed with the small screen provided by VMware for my guest OS . It doesn’t feel good to work on such a small screen. So I tried to get the full screen for my OS and that’s exactly I am going to tell you right now.

VMware provides a nice utility called VMware-Tools which adds a lot of functionality like you can perform copy-paste action between you Primary and Guest OS. OK so now we’ll install it.

Boot your Linux guest OS in VMware.

Now when the GUI screen is up click on VM-Install VMware Tools. Now you’ll see a DVD icon on your desktop with name VMware Tools.

Switch to CLI mode. I read that installing VMware-Tools from GUI mode doesn’t work. So why take a chance just switch to CLI mode.

Type cd /media/V and press tab key to list all the contents. Now switch to appropriate directory. For me it is cd /media/VMware\ Tools/ . Use tab key for ease and avoiding typing errors.

Now issue ls command and you will see a rpm file for VMware tools. Just install it.

Switch back to GUI mode and open the terminal.

Now issue vmware-config-tools.pl command on terminal. You can always use tab key to complete the command and avoid typing mistakes.

Let this script run and it will ask you to set the resolution. Set it to 1024×768.